Leake County v. Carr
Mississippi Supreme Court
Leake County v. Carr, 100 Miss. 91 (Miss. 1911)
56 So. 345
Smith
Leake County v. Carr
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court.
This cause having reached the court below by an appeal from the judgment rendered in the court of a justice of the peace, appellant’s right to an appeal to the supreme court is governed by section 86 of the Code of 1906; and since the judgment-rendered against appellant, and from which the appeal to this court is taken, is less than fifty dollars, the motion to dismiss must be, and is, sustained. Ward v. Scott, 57 Miss. 826; Wimbush v. Chinault, 58 Miss. 234. Dismissed.
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- Leake County v. E. Carr, Sheriff
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- Appellate Jurisdiction. Amount. Code 1906, section 86. Under Code 1906, section 86, so providing, where a suit is brought in a justice of the peace court and appealed to the circuit court and a judgment there rendered for fifty dollars or less, the defendant against whom such judgment is rendered cannot maintain an appeal to the supreme court and such appeal will he dismissed on motion.